Exercising the Business Continuity Plan


Europe

Paris, 13-14 Sept. 2010 (French)
London, 16-17 Sept. 2010 (English)
Brussels, 13-14 Dec. 2010 (English)

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Course Description

This highly interactive course teaches the techniques and the processes required to plan, design, manage, and evaluate meaningful and successful exercises for Business Continuity and Emergency Plans.

This is an exciting learning opportunity with plenty of hands on development work that takes the participant through the step by step details of exercises. Many tools and templates are provided (exercises design and evaluation forms, an exercise development guide and two post-exercise report formats) and can be used as desired after the course.

Participants use the techniques learned in the first part of the course to develop and conduct in a 1-hour tabletop exercise during the second part of the course. This course offers multiple opportunities for participation and discussion.

Audience

This course is designed for Business Continuity Management and Emergency Management Professionals with minimal experience and with the objective to create and deliver meaningful and successful exercises.

Duration

2 days.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Understand exercises concepts

  • Develop an exercises program

  • Develop and plan exercises with clear objectives, scope, scenario, activity list, roles, problem sets and injects, evaluation criterion

  • Manage the exercise

  • Prepare and facilitate briefing and de-briefing

  • Evaluate the exercise

  • Document post-exercise report

Tools and templates

All tools, templates and reports provided with this workshop are in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel formats. The documents are license free and are fully editable by participants for use in their own organizations. A valuable time-saver!

  • Exercise Planning Checklist

  • Exercise Budget Planner

  • Exercise Program Annual Schedule

  • Exercise Project Control Summary

  • Single Exercise Schedule

  • Exercise Communiqué

  • Scope & Objectives Worksheet

  • Approval Request

  • Scenario Idea List

  • Scenario Development Worksheet

  • Exercise Team Members and Assignments

  • Problem Set/Inject Development Worksheet

  • Master Problem Set list

  • Problem Sets & Inject Time Worksheet

  • Participant Worksheet

  • Exercise Briefing Guide

  • Briefing Summary Worksheet

  • De-briefing Guide

  • News Information Form

  • Observer feedback

  • Participant feedback

  • Evaluator Record Worksheet

  • General Exercise Evaluation

  • Full Tabletop Exercise Planning Guide – 11 pages

  • Exercise Evaluation Cross Reference Tool

  • First Impressions Report Template - PowerPoint

  • Final Exercise Report Template – 20 pages